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Re:You don’t need standups by s73v3r_ on Thursday August 02, 2018 @03:46PM (#17674843)
1. Isn't the standup usually the place you're told to initially ask for that help?

2. Aren't most people, at least the developers/designers in the same standup, supposed to be working on the same project?

Re:You don’t need standups by Shaanie on Thursday August 02, 2018 @04:47PM (#17675338)
Don't wait until the standup to ask for help if you don't have to.

I'm also confused why OP is having standup eith people who havent even heard of the project he's working on. Doesn't sound like he's working on the same product as the other developers.

Re:You don’t need standups by fakecigar on Thursday August 02, 2018 @06:05PM (#17675875)
+1

The standup should be the place of last resort for bringing up barriers impeding a task. The more resourceful you can be at solving a problem/brainstorming outside of the standup the better ime

Re:You don’t need standups by s73v3r_ on Thursday August 02, 2018 @07:16PM (#17676236)
"Don't wait until the standup to ask for help if you don't have to."

I didn't mean to imply that, but one of the purposes of stand-up is to give a place for that to happen.

Re:You don’t need standups by drunken-serval on Thursday August 02, 2018 @04:50PM (#17675359)
#2 never happened at any job I've had. It was always the entire team and we all had different projects. Sometimes entirely different applications.
Re:You don’t need standups by taneq on Thursday August 02, 2018 @10:16PM (#17676873)
That sounds like you were all on different teams, in the sense being used here, and probably shouldn't have all been in the same standup together apart from maybe a once-a-week catchup.
Re:You don’t need standups by zamber on Friday August 03, 2018 @04:39PM (#17683430)
A friend worked in a startup where 20-30 people of the tech dept. had a hour long standup. QA, sysadmins, developers - all had their 2 minutes to essentially do a daily status update.

I'm glad I haven't lived through that hell.

Re:You don’t need standups by jkchu on Friday August 03, 2018 @04:55PM (#17683541)
Wow that sounds like a nightmare. My standups have almost always been limited to just one team, usually 5-8 people.
Re:You don’t need standups by Scarblac on Friday August 03, 2018 @05:22PM (#17683731)
But you are in the same team in all the other senses, mostly that these are the people you work with in the long term. Some projects you do alone, some with Bob, others with almost everyone, but the team members want to feel like a team and have an idea of what everyone's working on.